Combined hook and hanger



(No Model.)

'0. P. BIERMAN.

COMBINED HOOK AND HANGER.

No. 366,369. Patented July 12, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. BIERMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK.

COMBINED HOOK AND HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,369, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed April 18, 1887. Serial No. 235,183.

'New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Hook and Hanger; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

My invention is a combined hook and hanger for use in suspending and detaching articles from hooks and pins upon walls and ceilings,

and my said invention consists of a novel and peculiar form of device, preferably of metal, and composed of a body proper adapted to be removably secured to a staff or handle, from which body radiate three tines or prongs, two upon one side in the shape of a V, and with a groove in their upper edge, and a single prong upon the opposite side formed into a hook, the top of which terminates in a point, as and for the purposes as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

The objectof this invention is to provide a simple and useful implement for use by'merchants, housekeepers, and others to suspend and detach articles upon pins, hooks, nails, &c., in wall and ceiling. The article may be a bucket or basket to be suspended by its handle or bail, or various other articles held by cord, wire, &c.

An essential feature of this invention is to so form the parts of the device thatv the article to be suspended or hung up will be securely held from dropping off of the implement while being elevated to its place, and at the same time the strands of the string, wire, 860., or bail, as the case may be, by whichthe article is to be hold is separated, or so held that the immediate engagement over the nail, pin, or hook of said string or bail is assured; and in addition to this, the quick detachment from said nail, pin, 850., of the string or bail may be accomplished without risk of the article dropping to the ground.

For a better understanding of the details (No model.)

of construction of my invention, reference is now had to the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a combined hook and hanger constructed according to my invention as detached from the staff or pole, and with an article in the act of being unhooked or detached from a pin in the wall by its hook end, and also an article resting in the slotted arms of the hanger in position to be elevated for suspending upon a hook. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 is a rear view, of the same. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the detaching-hook; and Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of a portion of the pole or staff, illustrating one mode ofadjustably fixing the implement thereto.

a designates the body of the device, which terminates in this instance at its bottom portion in a screw-thread, F, whereby it may be removably secured at the end of a pole or staff, G, having a socket, as at G, to receive it. One side of the body a is formed into a single hook, as at A, while the opposite side is formed into-two arms or bifurcated portion D. This bifurcated portion of the device is for suspending the article upon its pin, and the arms D thereof extend in a slight curve outward and upward, and slightly diverging from each other, and terminate in slotted end E, into which the cord, bail, or handle of the article to be hung up is received. The object of the bifurcation or separation of these arms D is to form a guide or sight for the operator and permit the entrance between the same of the pin and the consequent insertion through the string, bail, orhandle of said pin, as shown on the right of Fig. 1.

Referring-again to the hook A, it will be seen that the top end of said hook inclines toward the center of the body, and is formed with a straight edge, 0, which terminates in a point, B, beneath which is the hook. The object of this hook is to detach the article from the peg, the sharp point B entering the string and quickly removing it from the pin, after which said loop of the string slips down and over the hook A, whereby its accidental displacement by being lowered is prevented. I hook A, with point B, substantially as 'de- :0

By reason of the top end of the hook inclinscribed, for the purposes specified. ing forward said end is prevented from enter- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in iltllg the wall and injuring the same while in presence of two witnesses. 5 t e act of detachin an article from its )in.

I Chink g i 1 I CHARLES F. BIERMAN. The implement comprising a body, a, adapted to be removably secured to a pole or handle, F, bifurcated arms D, with slotted ends E, and

\Vitnesses:

ALEX. SINCLAIR, PETER DUFFY. 

